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I admittedly do not have much direct experience in activities that promote diversity,
but the University of Texas at Austin has made a sustained effort in this direction,
and I believe I have learned a bit from it. UT Austin faces challenges and opportunities
that seem to me are similar to those faced by UCSD. Both universities, like most other
top universities in the country, struggle to increase the number of women interested in
computer science. Unlike most of their peers, however, UCSD and UT are elite public
research institutions whose geographical location makes them natural poles of attraction
for communities, in particular hispanics, that make essential contributions to the life
and culture of the cities where the universities are located, but are severely
underrepresented in computer science.


I believe that a key factor to reverse this trend is to present computer science as an
exciting and engaging field of study as early as possible in the education of young students.
UT Austin has established several initiatives targeting at high school students. For example,
our department has organized the Breakfast Bytes program, in which middle and high school
students, and their parents, have an opportunity to talk to professors and industry guests
about interesting topics in computer science. And in the First Bytes Summer Camp, high school
girls can join a one-week residential program to learn the basic principles of computer science and
enjoy the excitement of solving interesting problems.

While I believe that these initiatives can make a difference when it comes to gender diversity,
I am not quite as optimistic about their ability to reach into less affluent communities and touch
students whose daily environment is not already tuned towards academic achievement. To reach these
students, I believe it is important to create a connection with the broader community in which
these students grow: again, we have to be able to reach students when they are young. One idea
would be to create ties with the teachers at schools that serve mostly underrepresented minorities---universities
often are keen to reach out to high school teachers in affluent neighbors, where academics standards
are often higher; the challenge will be to convince this different group of teachers, who have often
been ignored, that the university's commitment to outreach in their communities is sincere and long-term,
and then develop with them the most effective strategies to reach their students where they are to get
across both the excitement and the opportunities offered by a computer science education.



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